A man fondled a teenage boy Friday night on Hilda Street in Spartanburg, according to public safety reports.

From staff reports

A man fondled a teenage boy Friday night on Hilda Street in Spartanburg, according to public safety reports. The boy was walking home from a friend's house about 9 p.m. when a man approached on Charlesworth Avenue and began to talk to the boy while following him on to Hilda Street, an incident report stated. The report stated that the man confronted the boy behind a vacant home, groped the boy's genital area and tried to kiss him. The boy punched the man, ran home and told his mother, who called Spartanburg Public Safety.In the report, the man is described as a black male between 20 and 30 years old. He was wearing red pajamas with white circles on them, and a red-and-white shirt. The report further stated that the man had black hair with a pattern cut into his hair on the left side of his head.

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